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Author:

Crow, Thomas

Title:

The Role of Personality Pathology in Response to Emotional Stimuli and Risk for PTSD

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

PTSD
personality disorders
level of personality functioning
AMPD

File:

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Committee Members:

Aaron Pincus, Major Field Member
Kenneth Levy, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Major Field Member
Christian Connell, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wei, Wei

Title:

A Longitudinal Examination of Discrimination among Chinese American Youth: Predictors, Consequences, and Protective Factors

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Chinese American Adolescents
Discrimination
Neighborhood
Acculturation
Achievement
Depressive Symptoms

File:

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Committee Members:

Mayra Bamaca, Outside Unit & Field Member
Dawn Witherspoon, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Soto, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Su Yeong Kim, Special Member
Member Committee, Special Member

Author:

Dai, Junqiang

Title:

RACE BIAS IN ADOLESCENT FACE RECOGNITION: THE ROLE OF FRIENDSHIP DIVERSITY, ETHNIC-RACIAL IDENTITY, ETHNIC-RACIAL SOCIALIZATION, AND PERCEIVED DISCRIMINATION

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

own-race bias
adolescents
face processing
ethnic-racial identity
ethnic-racial socialization
development

File:

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Committee Members:

Rick Gilmore, Major Field Member
Dawn Witherspoon, Major Field Member
Mark Shriver, Outside Unit & Field Member
Paul Quiin, Special Member
Suzy Scherf, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lobo, Frances

Title:

Disentangling Adaptive and Maladaptive Parent-Child Variability in Early Childhood

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

coregulation
dyadic variability
maternal profiles
self-regulation
externalizing problems
early childhood

File:

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Committee Members:

Erika Lunkenheimer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Pamela Cole, Major Field Member
Gregory Fosco, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Major Field Member
Jessica Lougheed, Special Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gertel, Victoria Haley

Title:

Prediction is Production? Exploring the Relationship Between Language Prediction and Production in Younger and Older Adults

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

language prediction
language production
cognitive aging
language processing
self-paced reading

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Committee Members:

Chaleece Sandberg (she/her), Outside Unit & Field Member
Michele Diaz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Frank Hillary, Major Field Member
Nancy Dennis, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Paola Migliaccio-Dussias, Outside Field Member

Author:

Leong Mattern, Alexandra Christine

Title:

FOR WHOM DOES PERCEPTION OF THREAT PREDICT SUSEQUENT AGGRESSION PERPETRATION?

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

family violence
IPV
PCA
dominance
interpersonal threat
threat sensitivity
threat perception

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Committee Members:

Steffany Fredman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amy Marshall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Lebreton, Major Field Member
Yo Jackson, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shiverdecker, Levi Keith

Title:

Structural Equation Modeling with Ordinal Variables: Performance of Robust Estimators Under Conditions of Misspecification, Missing Data, and Nonnormality

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Structural equation modeling
SEM
Simulation
Estimators
maximum likelihood
weighted least squares
ordinal
missing data
nonormal

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Committee Members:

Rustin Meyer, Major Field Member
Pui-Wa Lei, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Lebreton, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Jean Phillips, Major Field Member

Author:

Marhefka, Jacqueline Tellier

Title:

Approaching or Avoiding Deadlines: The Why and How of Deadline Motivation

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Deadlines
Temporal Individual Differences
Motivation

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Committee Members:

Jean Phillips, Outside Unit & Field Member
Samuel Hunter, Major Field Member
Karen Gasper, Major Field Member
Susan Mohammed, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Williamson, Jason

Title:

WORKPLACE LONELINESS: THE ROLE OF POLITICAL IDENTITY DISSIMILARITY, IDENTITY STRENGTH, AND ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Workplace Loneliness
Political Ideology
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Committee Members:

Christopher Cameron, Major Field Member
Daniel DellaPosta, Outside Unit & Field Member
Alicia Grandey, Major Field Member
Susan Simkins, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gillis, Ash Jade

Title:

Promoting Sustainable Behaviors: Merging Research on Social Norms and Innovation Diffusion

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Social norms
Diffusion of innovations
Environmental psychology
Native plants

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Committee Members:

Janet Swim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jessica Myrick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jonathan Cook, Major Field Member
Karen Gasper, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Greenberg, Liora Shaw

Title:

Factors in post traumatic headache and recovery following mild traumatic brain injury: The role of personality, genetics, and diagnostic assessment

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Sports Related Concussion
Headache
APOE
Neurocognitive Functioning
Performance Validity
Post-Traumatic Headache
Personality
Concussion
Head Injury
Genetics

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Committee Members:

Frank Hillary, Major Field Member
Peter Arnett, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Conroy, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Jose Soto, Major Field Member

Author:

Brown, Kayla

Title:

Parent-Child Coregulation in Early Childhood: Novel Methodological Approaches and Influences of Individual Differences

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

temperament
coregulation
self-regulation
externalizing

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Committee Members:

Koraly Perez-Edgar, Major Field Member
Erika Lunkenheimer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Martha Wadsworth, Major Field Member
Nilam Ram, Special Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Sunny Bai, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Griffin, Jason

Title:

Evaluating Eye Gaze Perception Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorders Using a Computational Modeling Approach

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

eye-tracking
eye gaze perception
hidden Markov model
Autism Intervention
Serious game intervention

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Committee Members:

Rick Gilmore, Major Field Member
Diane Williams, Outside Unit & Field Member
Pamela Cole, Major Field Member
Suzy Scherf, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Janet Hsiao, Special Member

Author:

Walters, Kayla

Title:

A Profile Approach to the CIP Model of Leadership

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

CIP
leadership
person centered
LPA

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Committee Members:

Samuel Hunter, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Donald Hambrick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Simkins, Major Field Member
James LeBreton, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Burke, Vanessa

Title:

Negotiating the Middle: A Promotion-Prevention Explanation of Midlife Identity Negotiation and Leadership

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Midlife
leadership
generativity
disengagement
acceptance
successful aging
Aging workforce

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Committee Members:

Jes Matsick, Major Field Member
Samuel Hunter, Major Field Member
Aparna Joshi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Alicia Grandey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
David Almeida, Outside Field Member

Author:

Wong, Jennifer Denise

Title:

The Dark Side of Partner Support: Implications for Support Recipients’ Perpetration of Intimate Partner Aggression

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Partner Support
Intimate Partner Violence
Social Support
Couples
Low-income Parents
Gender differences
Aggression

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Committee Members:

Steffany Fredman, Major Field Member
Amy Marshall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ginger Moore, Major Field Member
Denise Solomon, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Daly, Kelly A

Title:

Child Maltreatment and Social Maladaptation: A Focus on Early Adolescence

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

early adolescence
social reorientation
adolescent development
maltreatment

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Committee Members:

Koraly Perez-Edgar, Major Field Member
Chad Shenk, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Amy Marshall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ginger Moore, Major Field Member

Author:

Scheffer, Julian

Title:

Intergroup Morality: Strategic Moralization for "Us" and "Them"

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Moralization
Politics
Effort
Motivation
Social Psychology

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Committee Members:

Christopher Cameron, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Soto, Major Field Member
Peter Hatemi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Karen Gasper, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Furer, Melinda Leigh

Title:

The Impact of Construal-Level Manipulation on Real (Non-Hypothetical) Snack Food Choice

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Psychology
Snack Food Choice
Construal Level

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Committee Members:

Pamela Cole, Major Field Member
Christopher Cameron, Major Field Member
Stephen Wilson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Smyth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Busuito, Alex

Title:

The Intergenerational Reach of Child Maltreatment: Exploring Transmission Mechanisms in Developmental and Socioeconomic Contexts

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

self-regulation
early childhood
infancy
maltreatment
cumulative risk
intergenerational transmission of risk

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Committee Members:

Erika Lunkenheimer, Major Field Member
Pamela Cole, Major Field Member
Ginger Moore, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Diana Fishbein, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Brenner, Einat Karin

Title:

Examining Cognitive Reserve as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Connectivity and Cognitive Outcome Following Neurologic Disruption

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

neuroimaging
traumatic brain injury
mild cognitive impairment
alzheimer's disease
resting state connectivity
dynamic connectivity
fMRI
neuropsychology
cognitive reserve

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Committee Members:

Ann Kolanowski, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lauren Massimo, Special Member
Michele Diaz, Major Field Member
Frank Hillary, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Peter Arnett, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Salomaa, Anna Christina

Title:

Beyond Categories: Complexities In Sexual Minority Measurement And Prejudice

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

sexuality
wsw
msm
mental health
minority stress
bisexual stigma
sexual minorities

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Committee Members:

Louis Castonguay, Major Field Member
Jes Matsick, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Samantha Tornello, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jose Soto, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ratcliff, Kizzann Ashana

Title:

Longitudinal Influences of Parenting Behavior and Child Language on Young Children’s Social-Emotional Competence

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

social emotional competence
parenting
language
development

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Committee Members:

Karen Bierman, Major Field Member
Pamela Cole, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ginger Moore, Major Field Member
Janet Welsh, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Johnson, Benjamin Norman

Title:

Resolving the Latent Structure of Borderline Personality Disorder: Predicting Symptoms in Daily Life

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

personality disorder
phenotype
classification
assessment
diagnosis
individualized treatment
ecological momentary assessment
ambulatory assessment
mixture modeling
latent variable modeling
borderline personality disorder

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Committee Members:

Kenneth Levy, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Hallquist, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Major Field Member
Peter Molenaar, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

May, Emily M.

Title:

Substance Use in Diverse Rural Adolescents: Processes of Risk and Resilience Across Multiple Ecological Levels

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

adolescence
substance use
alcohol use
marijuana use
rural
education
neighborhood

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Committee Members:

Sandra Azar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mayra Bamaca, Outside Unit & Field Member
Dawn Witherspoon, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Martha Wadsworth, Major Field Member
Peter Molenaar, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Feldman, Jason Scot

Title:

A Tri-Factor Approach to ADHD Assessment: Integrating Multi-Rater Consensus, Situational Specificity, and Symptom-Level Prognostics of Impairment and Diagnostic Status

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

ADHD
Trifactor Model
Informant Discrepancies
Assessment
ADHD
Trifactor Model
Informant Discrepancies
Assessment

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Committee Members:

Lisa Kopp, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bradley Wyble, Major Field Member
Cynthia Huang-Pollock, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Peter Arnett, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Frasca, Terri

Title:

Can Women of Color "Just Say No"?: Reactions to Their Refusals of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion-Related Service Requests in Nonacademic Workplaces

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

diversity
equity
inclusion
service
gender
race
organization
culture
diversity
equity
inclusion
service
gender
race
organizations
cultures

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Committee Members:

Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Stephanie A Shields, Special Member & Co-Dissertation Advisor
Aparna Joshi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jonathan Cook, Major Field Member
Jes Matsick, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Erin Heidt-Forsythe, Outside Field Member

Author:

Cosgrove, Abigail

Title:

How Aging Shapes Semantic Memory: Exploring the Relationships between Language Abilities, Network Construction, and Word Characteristics on the Structure of Semantic Networks in Younger and Older Adults

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Aging
Semantic Memory
Network Science

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Committee Members:

Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Chaleece Sandberg (she/her), Outside Unit & Field Member
Roger Beaty, Major Field Member
Michele Diaz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Janet van Hell, Major Field Member

Author:

O'Donnell, Ryan

Title:

Mental Operationalization in Visual Search

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

visual attention
visual search
selection history
bayesian inference
visual working memory
operationalization

File:

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Committee Members:

John Collins, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bradley Wyble, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Richard Carlson, Major Field Member
Nancy Dennis, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Tong

Title:

Understanding Heterogeneity in Associations Between Internalizing Problems and Alcohol Use Behaviors Into Early Adulthood With Developmental Behavioral Genetics

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Behavioral problems
alcohol use behaviors
longitudinal
trajectories
genetics
Depression
Anxiety
Longitudinal
Alcohol Use
Genetics

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Committee Members:

Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Jenae Neiderhiser, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rina Eiden, Major Field Member
Jennifer Maggs, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Wilson, Major Field Member
Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Outside Field Member

Author:

Stevens, Samantha

Title:

A Longitudinal Inquiry into Ph.D. Student Psychological Experiences: Threat Profiles, Social-Psychological Interventions, and Their Interactive Effects on Performance and Psychological Outcomes

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

social belonging intervention
values affirmation intervention
latent class analysis
doctoral students
attrition
controlled field experiment

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Committee Members:

Jes Matsick, Major Field Member
Jonathan Cook, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alicia Dowd, Outside Unit & Field Member
James LeBreton, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Trainer, Austen

Title:

UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF PARENTAL NIGHTTIME RESPONSIVENESS ON CHILD SOCIOEMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A STATE SPACE APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

parenting
infancy
internalizing
externalizing
attachment
nighttime
sleep
responsiveness
state space

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Committee Members:

Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Douglas Teti, Outside Unit & Field Member
Erika Lunkenheimer, Major Field Member
Pamela Cole, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Schermerhorn, Nathaniel

Title:

Waxing Nostalgic as a Status Quo Maintaining Practice

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

nostalgia
hegemonic masculinity
status quo
social identity
practice theory

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Committee Members:

Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Theresa Vescio, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Claire Colebrook, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lynn Liben, Major Field Member
Christopher Cameron, Major Field Member

Author:

Oswald, Flora

Title:

Perception, Experience, and Body Identity in Intergroup Relations: How Body Size Shapes Visual Subjects and Perceivers

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

body size
stigmatization
social vision
ensemble coding
fatness
feminist standpoint

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Committee Members:

Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Jill Wood, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jonathan Cook, Major Field Member
Reginald Adams, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jes Matsick, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

England, Katelyn Elizabeth

Title:

Bad News Bearers: Feedback-Giving as an Anxiety-Eliciting Event in a Diverse Workplace

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

feedback
emotion regulation

File:

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Committee Members:

Jes Matsick, Major Field Member
Rustin Meyer, Major Field Member
Alicia Grandey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Aparna Joshi, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Boemerman, Louis

Title:

Exploring the Unexplored Nature of Personality Strength and its Relationship with Task Performance

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Personality strength; job performance

File:

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Committee Members:

Rustin Meyer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Donald Hambrick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Wilson, Major Field Member
James LeBreton, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Park, Hyun Joon

Title:

THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SES AND HAIR CORTISOL LEVELS DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Socioeconomic status (SES)
Hair cortisol
Social psychological interventions

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Committee Members:

Jose Soto, Major Field Member
Joshua Smyth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jonathan Cook, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Karen Gasper, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Palmer, Lindsay

Title:

PERCEPTIONS OF ADVANTAGED AND DISADVANTAGED GROUP MEMBERS INVOLVED IN SOCIAL JUSTICE

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

LGBTQ+
Diversity
Allyship

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Committee Members:

Kristin Buss (She/Her), Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jes Matsick, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lorraine Dowler, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jose Soto, Major Field Member
Jonathan Cook, Major Field Member

Author:

Patallo, Brandon Joshua

Title:

More than maltreatment: The role of stressful life events on externalizing and academic functioning among youth in foster care

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Foster Care
Maltreatment
Academic Outcomes
Externalizing
Stressful Life Events
Appraisal
Value for Academics
Stressor Domains

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Committee Members:

Martha Wadsworth, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Soto, Major Field Member
Christian Connell, Outside Unit & Field Member
Yo Jackson, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bliton, Chloe Frances

Title:

Dynamic Indices of Interpersonal Perception as a Candidate Core Mechanism for Borderline Personality Pathology

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

borderline personality pathology
Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory
interpersonal perception
perceptual covariation
perceptual flux

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Committee Members:

Louis Castonguay, Major Field Member
Emily Ansell, Outside Unit & Field Member
Aaron Pincus, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michelle Newman, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dell, Kristine

Title:

The Role of Physical Activity Across the Lifespan on Brain Structure and Function After Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

traumatic brain injury
physical activity
sedentary behavior

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Committee Members:

Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Jenae Neiderhiser, Major Field Member
Frank Hillary, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Proctor, Outside Unit & Field Member
Peter Arnett, Major Field Member

Author:

Chamberlain, Jordan

Title:

Attentional Neural Mechanisms Associated with Cognitive Training in Healthy Older Adults

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

aging
cognitive training
attention
fmri
speed of processing training
univariate
resting state

File:

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Committee Members:

Chaleece Sandberg (she/her), Outside Unit & Field Member
Bradley Wyble, Major Field Member
Frank Hillary, Major Field Member
Nancy Dennis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Riegler, Kaitlin Elizabeth

Title:

Understanding the influence of sleep, a modifiable behavior, in different neuropsychological populations

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Sleep
Multiple Sclerosis
Concussion

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Committee Members:

Frank Hillary, Major Field Member
Nancy Dennis, Major Field Member
Semyon Slobounov, Outside Unit & Field Member
Peter Arnett, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Van Doren, Natalia

Title:

Characterizing the role of affect in substance use in daily life: a novel application of latent profile analysis for daily diary data

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

emotion
substance use
latent class anaylsis
heavy episodic drinking

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Committee Members:

Robert Roeser, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rina Eiden, Major Field Member
Michelle Newman, Major Field Member
Jose Soto, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bethany C. Bray, Special Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sanders, Michael Thomas

Title:

Early Executive Functioning and Longitudinal Associations to Profiles of Adolescent Vulnerability to Later Substance Use Disorders

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

executive functioning
adolescent adjustment
risk-taking
substance use
executive functioning
adolescent adjustment
risk-taking
substance use

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Committee Members:

Karen Bierman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Erika Lunkenheimer, Major Field Member
Martha Wadsworth, Major Field Member
Janet Welsh, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Taverna, Emily

Title:

Validation of the Moral Injury Construct for Family Aggression Perpetration

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

domestic violence
morals
cognition
emotion
aggression
abuse
violence

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Committee Members:

Steffany Fredman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amy Marshall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Aaron Pincus, Major Field Member
Christopher Cameron, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bray, Brandon A

Title:

Family and Contextual Factors That Predict the Development Course of ADHD-Related Behaviors in Early and Middle Childhood

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

ADHD
School-Risk
Elementary Age
Mixed Effects Model
Trajectory

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Committee Members:

Karen Bierman, Major Field Member
Jenae Neiderhiser, Major Field Member
Carlomagno Panlilio, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cynthia Huang-Pollock, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Qian, Yiming

Title:

Covarying Pattern Of Developmental Changes In The Face Processing System In Autistic Adolescents

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Visual Perception
face perception
multimodal neuroimaging
adolescence
autism
developmental process

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Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Peter Molenaar, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rick Gilmore, Chair of Committee
Suzy Scherf, Dissertation Advisor
Frank Hillary, Major Field Member

Author:

Rosenstein, Lia Kathleen

Title:

Comparing Measures of DSM-5 Level of Personality Functioning and Borderline Personality Disorder using Multisurface Interpersonal Construct Validation

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Borderline personality disorder
interpersonal circumplex
Alternative Model for Personality Disorders

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Committee Members:

Emily Ansell, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amy Marshall, Major Field Member
Aaron Pincus, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michelle Newman, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Vallorani, Alicia

Title:

SENSITIVITY OF MENTALIZING NETWORK TO DYADIC SYNCHRONY DURING A NATURALISTIC PEER SOCIAL INTERACTION

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

naturalistic
social interaction
mentalizing
second-person neuroscience

File:

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Committee Members:

Koraly Perez-Edgar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Major Field Member
Michael N. Hallquist, Special Member
Erika Forbes, Special Member
Charles Geier, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Reginald Adams, Major Field Member

Author:

Kruk, Mary

Title:

Identity Safety Cues for LGBTQ+ People in Medical Settings

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

safety cue
identity cue
environmental cue
medical homophobia
lgbtq
sexuality

File:

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Committee Members:

Britney Wardecker, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephanie Shields, Major Field Member
Jes Matsick, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Soto, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Anaya, Berenice

Title:

The Neural Foundations of Emotion Regulation in Infancy and the Role of Individual and Environmental Factors Over Time

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

EEG
Temperament
Mother-child interactions
Emotion regulation
Maternal anxiety
Infancy

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Committee Members:

Koraly Perez-Edgar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Erika Lunkenheimer, Major Field Member
Yo Jackson, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Nilam Ram, Special Member
Carina Curto, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Wu, Ziqi

Title:

Comparing Predictive Validity of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory and the Narcissistic Personality Inventory using Intensive Repeated Measures in Daily Life

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Narcissistic Personality
Personality Assessment

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Committee Members:

Aaron Pincus, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Soto, Major Field Member
Ben Locke, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Frank Hillary, Major Field Member

Author:

Carney, Dever Marie

Title:

The Clinical Load Index And Clinical Model As Predictors Of Collegiate Psychotherapy Outcomes

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

psychotherapy process and outcome
college mental health
clinical load index
CCMH
center effects

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Committee Members:

Louis Castonguay, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Wilson, Major Field Member
Ben Locke, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Simkins, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cooley, Daryl Tanya

Title:

Discrepancies in youth self-report and case file report of maltreatment and association with internalizing and externalizing symptoms

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

child maltreatment
informant discrepancies
youth self-report
case file

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Committee Members:

Jose Soto, Major Field Member
Michael Wolff, Major Field Member
Christian Connell, Outside Unit & Field Member
Yo Jackson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Diercks, Catherine

Title:

Parental Attributions and Harsh Parenting Across Infancy and Early Childhood

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

parental attributions
harsh parenting
child behavior problems
infant sleep

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Committee Members:

Douglas Teti, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rina Eiden, Major Field Member
Erika Lunkenheimer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yo Jackson, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

English, Mary Samantha

Title:

Bidirectional Mother-Child Influences in Attempts to Regulate Children's Behavior

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

self-regulation
early childhood
parenting
bidirectional transactions

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Committee Members:

Rina Eiden, Major Field Member
Cynthia Stifter, Outside Unit & Field Member
Pamela Cole, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ginger Moore, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gerver, Courtney R

Title:

The creativity-specificity induction: A memory-based creativity strategy can enhance creative divergent thinking but not memory in older adults

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

memory
creativity
aging
cognition

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Committee Members:

Chaleece Sandberg (she/her), Outside Unit & Field Member
Rick Gilmore, Major Field Member
Roger Beaty, Major Field Member
Nancy Dennis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Grossner, Emily

Title:

Identifying Distinct Metacognitive Phenotypes Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Neuropsychology
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Metacognition
Neuroimaging

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Committee Members:

Sarah Rajtmajer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michele Diaz, Major Field Member
Frank Hillary, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Peter Arnett, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gunther, Kelley

Title:

Multi-modal measurements of top-down influences on anxiety risk

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Temperament
Anxiety
Attention

File:

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Committee Members:

Koraly Perez-Edgar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Elisabeth Karuza, Major Field Member
Rick Gilmore, Major Field Member
Charles Geier, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Guty, Erin Theresa

Title:

Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Outcomes and Recovery in Sports-Related Concussion

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

neuropsychology
sports-related concussion
assessment
cognition
cognitive reserve

File:

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Committee Members:

Michele Diaz, Major Field Member
Frank Hillary, Major Field Member
Semyon Slobounov, Outside Unit & Field Member
Peter Arnett, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lebkuecher, Amy

Title:

Attention, Statistical Learning, and Language Outcomes in Adults With and Without a History of Language Disorder

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

attention
statistical learning
language
language disorder
attentional bias

File:

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Committee Members:

Elisabeth Karuza, Major Field Member
Daniel Weiss, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Carol Miller, Outside Unit & Field Member
Janet van Hell, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Bradley Wyble, Major Field Member

Author:

Lewis, Kathrine Annette

Title:

It Takes More Than A Mile: A Feminist Social Psychological Approach To The Study Of Empathy

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Perspective taking
Empathy
Standpoint Theory

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Committee Members:

Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Theresa Vescio, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jes Matsick, Major Field Member
Christopher Cameron, Major Field Member
Denise Solomon, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Lengieza, Michael

Title:

Growth, Authenticity, And Meaning: The Effects of Eudaimonic Reflections On Self-Expansiveness

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Eudaimonia
Hedonia
Connectedness to Nature
Self-expansion

File:

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Committee Members:

Janet Swim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christopher Cameron, Major Field Member
Jonathan Cook, Major Field Member
Carter Hunt, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Yushuang

Title:

Listening to a foreign friend in a noisy restaurant: Neural correlates of listening to foreign-accented speech in noisy conditions in children and adults

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

accent
background noise
ERP
Time frequency analysis
children
speech processing
semantics

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Committee Members:

Koraly Perez-Edgar, Major Field Member
Rick Gilmore, Major Field Member
Anne Olmstead, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tessa Bent, Special Member
Janet van Hell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhou, Anna

Title:

Continuity and Change in Reactivity and Regulation during Early Childhood: The Role of Genetic Influences and Parental Internalizing Symptoms

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

temperament
negative emotionality
parasympathetic nervous system
behavioral genetics
internalizing symptoms

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Committee Members:

Lorah Dorn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jenae Neiderhiser, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Yo Jackson, Major Field Member

Author:

Hu, Danfei

Title:

Useful and Affordable? Examining the Role of Costs in Motivated Emotion Regulation

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

costs
benefits
motivation
emotion regulation
negative emotion
anger

File:

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Committee Members:

Karen Winterich, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christopher Cameron, Major Field Member
Jose Soto, Major Field Member
Karen Gasper, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hedayati Zafarghandi, Shekoofeh

Title:

Model of Visual Working Memory Based on Visual Knowledge

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Working Mmeory
Visual Knowledge
Computational Models

File:

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Committee Members:

Sharon Huang, Outside Field Member
Abhronil Sengupta, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bradley Wyble, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Richard Carlson, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zainal, Nur Hani

Title:

A Randomized Controlled Trial of a 14-Day Mindfulness Ecological Momentary Intervention (MEMI) for Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

generalized anxiety disorder
mindfulness
ecological momentary intervention
executive functioning

File:

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Committee Members:

Kyle Murdock, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michelle Newman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christopher Cameron, Major Field Member
Peter Arnett, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yu, Anya

Title:

Investigating the Impact of Language Experience on Second Language Reading Comprehension Using a Resting-State Connectome-based Predictive Model

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

L2 reading
immersion
resting-state fMRI
machine learning
implicit learning

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Committee Members:

Roger Beaty, Major Field Member
Frank Hillary, Major Field Member
Janet van Hell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Peggy Van Meter, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Schwob, Natalie

Title:

Sequencing Biases in Langauge and Motor Planning: A Comparative Study of Humans And Bonobos

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

sequencing
planning
evolution
motor planinng
language planning
domain general
bonobos

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Committee Members:

Elisabeth Karuza, Major Field Member
Daniel Weiss, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rick Gilmore, Major Field Member
Navin Viswanathan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Vazquez, Lauren C

Title:

Children's Neural Processing of Affective Prosody: Speaker and Emotion Effects

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

: affective prosody
speaker familiarity
affective prosody
speaker familiarity

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Committee Members:

Pamela Cole, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Wilson, Major Field Member
Suzy Scherf, Major Field Member
Charles Geier, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Swigart, Kristen

Title:

Does Expressing Humility in Teams Help or Harm Leader Emergence?: The Role of Competitive and Safety Climates

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

humility
leadership emergence

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Committee Members:

Jean Phillips, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rustin Meyer, Major Field Member
Rick Jacobs, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alicia Grandey, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nguyen, Tin

Title:

TOGETHER OR APART?: EFFECTS OF GEOGRAPHIC CONFIGURATIONS AND TEMPORAL DIVERSITY ON TEAM INNOVATION

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

geographic dispersion
virtual teamwork
teams

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Committee Members:

Stephen Humphrey, Outside Unit & Field Member
James LeBreton, Major Field Member
Samuel T. Hunter, Special Member
Alicia Grandey, Major Field Member
Susan Simkins, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tarantino, Danielle

Title:

APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTANCE THEORY TO ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: EXPLORING THE MOTIVE TO AGGRESS AND POLITICIZED THREATS

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

psychological reactance
implicit aggression
counterproductive work behaviors
political ideology
personality

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Committee Members:

Kristin Buss, Program Head/Chair
James LeBreton, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kenneth Levy, Major Field Member
Hanyi Min, Major Field Member
Lijiang Shen, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Hadjiandreou, Eliana

Title:

The stringent moral circle: Self-other discrepancies in the perceived expansion of moral concern

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

morality
prosocial behavior
perceptions
self-other differences
cynicism

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Committee Members:

Jes Matsick, Major Field Member
Rachel Smith, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss, Program Head/Chair
Charlie Crimston, Special Member
Sean Laurent, Major Field Member
Christopher Cameron, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Anderson, Stephen

Title:

Examining the Moral Significance of Secondhand Empathy

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Empathy
Morality

File:

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Committee Members:

Karen Winterich, Outside Unit & Field Member
Roger Beaty, Major Field Member
Christopher Cameron, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Karen Gasper, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss, Program Head/Chair
Sean Laurent, Major Field Member